Abit BE6 causing trouble
I finally managed to salvage a spare ATX case so finally I can build my art box.
For this task I selected my trusty Abit BE6 which I used with my first server.
for video I used my prized Intergraph Wildcat 4000 (needs both the agp socket and a pci slot). After everything was installed, secured and pre-checked I pressed power.
Nothing
After some more tests I found that removing the network card got the thing to power on. dd thing was that when I tested the same card in another system the other computer powered on fine.
Then came the second hurdle.
Now that the system was on it was not POSTing. No beeps, not blink from the keyboard and not even activity from the monitor. Thinking that I still had the video card default on a PCI slot I pulled the wildcat und used a spare Mach64 I had.
This time the system came to life and greeted me with the error that the CMOS defaults had been loaded.
This triggered my routine of entering the bios and resetting the clock and the drie assignments.
This is where it got really weird.
After a few keystrokes the num lock, caps lock and the scroll lock lamps began to turn themselves on and off. All the sudden the system was freezing for a few moments or the arrow keys were being pressed by themselves. I tried a second keyboard and got the same result, even when I was not in the bios and the system was complaining about no drives to boot from (because I coudn't set them), after a few keystrokes (random keys) the symptom occured again.
finally, when I restarted after the keyboard trapped me in the bios I was told that the CMOS defaulte were loaded AGAIN. WTF! The battery tested good too!
I assume that either the bios is being flakey or we have a board on the verge of death. I can't seem to figure out what's going on, what's your two cents?
BTW:Are the roumers true that this board has badcaps?
For this task I selected my trusty Abit BE6 which I used with my first server.
for video I used my prized Intergraph Wildcat 4000 (needs both the agp socket and a pci slot). After everything was installed, secured and pre-checked I pressed power.
Nothing
After some more tests I found that removing the network card got the thing to power on. dd thing was that when I tested the same card in another system the other computer powered on fine.
Then came the second hurdle.
Now that the system was on it was not POSTing. No beeps, not blink from the keyboard and not even activity from the monitor. Thinking that I still had the video card default on a PCI slot I pulled the wildcat und used a spare Mach64 I had.
This time the system came to life and greeted me with the error that the CMOS defaults had been loaded.
This triggered my routine of entering the bios and resetting the clock and the drie assignments.
This is where it got really weird.
After a few keystrokes the num lock, caps lock and the scroll lock lamps began to turn themselves on and off. All the sudden the system was freezing for a few moments or the arrow keys were being pressed by themselves. I tried a second keyboard and got the same result, even when I was not in the bios and the system was complaining about no drives to boot from (because I coudn't set them), after a few keystrokes (random keys) the symptom occured again.
finally, when I restarted after the keyboard trapped me in the bios I was told that the CMOS defaulte were loaded AGAIN. WTF! The battery tested good too!
I assume that either the bios is being flakey or we have a board on the verge of death. I can't seem to figure out what's going on, what's your two cents?
BTW:Are the roumers true that this board has badcaps?
<----Computer says I need more beer.
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